Skirt evener and measurer.



No. 820,567. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906. S GREIG & M. MAWSON. SKIRT EVENER AND MBASURER.

APPLICATION FILED J'ULY3,1905.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

SKIRT EVENER AND MEASURER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented May 15, 1906.

Application filed July 3, 1905- Serial No. 268,196.

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SUsAN GREIG and MARY MAWSON, gentlewomen, residing at the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt Eveners and Measurers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in skirt eveners and measurers and the objects of our invention are to devise a device of cheap and simple construction by means of which a ladys skirt may be marked so that when made to this marln'ng it will hang evenly and at the required distance from the floor, and, further, that the time taken to mark a skirt and the inconvenience given to the customer shall be as little as possible; and it consists, essentially, of a stool or low table, a flat oval marking-ring, supports for the marking-ring, a frame to which the supports are fastened, crank and chain-gear for lifting and lowering the frame, supports for the chain-gear, ratchet-wheel and stop to hold the frame in any position, a scale suitably graduated fastened to the side of the table, and a pointer attached to the frame to engage with the graduated scale, designed to register the distance the marking-ring 1s raised, the various parts being constructed and arranged in detail as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, showing the top broken away to exhibit constructi on of the device. Fig. 2 is a front view of the device.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is a stool or low table, which is made to stand about eighteen inches from the floor.

B is a flat oval marking-ring with a sharp outside edge B, designed to conform to the shape of the bottom of a ladys skirt and supported above and in a plane parallel to the top of the stool A by the supports B which pass through the top of the stool.

O is a frame which is composed of two bars C to which the supports B are fastened, and

two cross-pieces C, as shown in Fig. 1.

D is a chain-gear comprised of a sprocketwheel D, which is mounted on and secured to the shaft F, a second sprocket-wheel D pivoted to a support E, which is secured to the top of the stool, and a chain D which is secured to the cross-pieces C by the lugs C the whole being designed to lift or lower the frame O by simply turning the handle F, which is secured to the shaft F and in this way moves the oval-shaped ring above or to the level of the top of the stool.

G is a graduated scale which is secured beneath the top of the stool.

H is a pointer which is secured to the bar 0*, connected to the marking-ring B in such a manner that it rises therewith and registers on the scale G the height to which the ovalshaped ring has been lifted above the top of the stool.

J is a ratchet which is secured to the shaft F, with a stop K supported on a side plate K, designed to hold the oval-shaped ring in any desired raised position.

Having now described the construction of our invention, we shall now proceed to describe the method of using the same. The customer stands on the stool inside of the oval marking-ring, so that the skirt hangs over the ring. The dressmaker now raises the oval marking-ring above the level of the top of stool to the distance the customer desires her skirt to be made to hang from the floor, this distance being indicated by the pointer H and scale G. The customer now stands in her natural position, while the dressmaker marks the skirt at the required hei ht by pressing the skirt with a piece of cha k against the sharp edge of the oval marking-ring and in this Way marks the skirt, so that when made to this marking it will hang even and at the required distance from the floor.

It will be seen that by a device such as we have described one is able to mark a dress for making in a very few minutes and with no inconvenience to the customer or trouble to the dressmaker, and, further, a skirt can be marked so that when made to this marking it will hang evenly and at the required distance from the floor, no matter the deformity of the customer.

What we claim as our invention is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a stool, of a flat oval ring above the top of the stool, supports extending down through the top of the stool to support the ring, bars fastened to the lower end of the supports, cross-pieces connecting the bars and a chain-gear fastened to the cross pieces to lift or lower the supports, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a stool, of a flat oval ring,

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supports to hold the ring above and in a plane parallel to the top of the stool, a frame to which the supports are fastened, a chaingear to lift the frame so that the oval ring shall always be in a plane parallel to the top of the stool, and a registering device to reg1ster the height to which the ring has been lifted, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a stool, of a flat oval ring, supports to hold the ring, a frame to wh ch the supports are fastened, a chain fastened to the frame, sprocket-wheels to engage with the chain, supports to hold the lower sprocketwheel, a crank and shaft to turn the upper sprocket-wheel, a ratchet-wheel secured to the shaft, and a stop to hold the ratchet= wheel in any position, as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination with the substantially 20 skirt above the floor, when marked, may be 25 seen as specified.

SUSAN GREIG. MARY MAWSON.

Witnesses:

. N. J. SMITHER,

L. MCEAOHERN. 

